I have been informed of this policy for a while now but here in my oh so regiious hometown the school district is being called out to explain a policy of their's. The policy is that if a student comes to school and is suspected of being under the influence of a drug the student is then sent to the school nurse. The student in question is to be inspected by the school nurse to see if they are indeed under the influence of a drug. If the student is found to be under the influence of a drug the student's parents are to be notified that their student has been moved to a boot camp factility and will remain there the rest of the semester, because the school nurse has concluded that the student was under the influence of a drug. The student's parents are asked if they would like their child drug tested by blood or urein. If the student's parents object to their child being tested then the student is arrested for pocession of a controlled substance. In jail the student is required to take the drug test. If the student test come out negative then the charges are dropped, but the child must still remain in the boot camp facility for the rest of the semester with no chance of being moved back to thier normal school. If the parents concent to the drug test and the child test negative the child must still stay in boot camp the rest of the semester. The interesting thing about this policy and why it is being questioned and should be is because it includes prescibed medications as well. The case that brought this policy to the media's attenchin was a case where a girl was on prescibed anti-depressants. The drug sniffing dogs smelled her car and barked at it signaling that they had found something. The girl is pulled out of class and her car is searched the principal found a pill bottle with her presciption information on it that was empty. The principal ordered that the girl be searched and sniffed by the dogs and police. The dogs pick up on her anti-depressants in her system because one of the side-effects of the presciption was that it made you emit a slight order that dogs can smell. She was removed from the school by police and taken to the boot camp facility where after she was put through a 2-hour session of PT (psyhical training) she was allowed a 30-sec. phone call to her parents. She called her parents she could only tell them that she was taken out of school and now in boot camp before the drill sargent hung up the phone for her. The girl's dad rushed down to his daughter's foremer high school to find out why his daughter was in boot camp. The principal informed him that his daughter was placed in boot camp because they found a pill bottle in her car and that she was under the influence of the bottle's contents. The dad asked even though it was prescribed by a doctor it was enough to get his daughter thrown out of school for, the principal went on to inform him that his daugther's car had been impounded and her belongings and text-books had all been thrown away. Which ment that they owed the school roughly $480 for lost text books. Dad was not happy about this and is curttenly suing the school district over this. He cannot transfer his daugther because when admitted to the boot camp facility the only way to get out of it is when the drill sargents say that you are fit to be reintroduced back in to society, the school will not release her records either.
My question that is pounding in my head is that is this how we want to deal with the youth of today ? I mean this girl was under the influence of anti-depressants which her doctor prescribbed her. This is sending out the message that the youth of today can do no right. That if we choose our health over school then we are treated like crimianls, no criminals get more rights.But if we choose to follow this policy we risk someone getting hurt and even dying or worse. I hope that this blog helps shed some light on the situation.
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That is the dumbest policy I have heard of. First, a school nurse does not have the KNOWLEDGE to know if someone is under drugs. Second, you're right, prescribed drugs shouldn't be penalized. Third, if they are found in the clear, then they should be taken from boot camp. Boot camp can break a person and cause them to become a drugy. If you tell someone they are, and they aren't, you're calling them a liar. Then that person says, since they don't believe me what the hell, I'll do it anyways now.
That is just sad and stupid.
And this same progeny of evils comes from our debate, from our dissension; We are their parents and original. -- A Midsummer Night's Dream Act II, Scene I, Lines 115-117